A distributed self-deployment algorithm for the coverage of mobile wireless sensor networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 877-879

  Cheng, Teddy M ^a   Savkin, Andrey V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barrier coverage; Distributed systems; Mobile sensor networks; Sensor deployment; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; COVERAGE PROBLEM; DISTRIBUTED MOTION COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; MOBILE SENSORS; MOBILE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK; SELF-DEPLOYMENT ALGORITHMS; SENSOR DEPLOYMENT; SIMPLE RULES;

ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70450277215     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2009.091178     Document Type: Article

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